Job 26:4
Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
In Context
5Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:23Now therefore behold the Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.
Job 32:18Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.
1 Corinthians 12:3Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say the Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.
Revelation 16:13And I saw from the mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.
Matthew Henry on Job 26:2-5
Job's Reproof of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? One would not have thought that Job, when he was in so much pain and misery, could banter his friend as he does here and make himself merry with the impertinency of his… Read the whole commentary →